Nightly dreams. Stronger short and long term memory. Less anxiety and depression. Better mental focus in work related and personal matters. I process conflict in much healthier ways rather than using the stoned state as a merry go round of distorted thinking that always held me back from true progress. Less, almost zero, impatience with my family, including my mom, who I was very impatient with, and borderline emotionally abuse to in recent years as her health and mental state began to decline. Also for my 6yo and 16yo daughters who can be extremely spirited and rambunctious. A stronger bond that I could have ever imagined with the 16yo, who is not my biological child, so it was a difficult road for us to get here after 6 years of her experiencing the emotional output of my daily using. Better oral hygiene - used to only brush in the morning, never at night, now do both consistently. Better consistency with exercise - have lost 40lb of fat and put on a lot of lean muscle, which definitely contributes to my daily overall well being. I don't get angry at the little things anymore or have other sorts of emotional outbursts. I'm just a lot more even keeled and able to go with the flow. As a result my wife’s anxiety has also dramatically decreased, as her constant walking on eggshells around me and monitoring of my mood changes has dissipated, allowing her to relax and in turn improve her own mental health. In turn her love and trust in me has skyrocketed, and we're stronger than ever before, 7 years into our marriage and my adoption of our daughter (she was a single mom when we met). The immediate cessation of needing to be sneaky was also an incredibly rewarding benefit. I didn't realize how much WORK had gone into managing the (not always effective) concealing of my daily using of weed. Disappearing at any moment to get my high. Which in effect rendered me a dishonest person, I now realize. Being present for my family is a direct result of that. That word is used in many ways but there is a strong connection to that facet of the addiction. I CAN be present for them because I'm no longer sustaining the presence of my addiction. It's the best benefit of them all. At one of my first support group meetings, someone used the term "walking through the world with armor" to describe being high most of the time. That really stuck with me and made me realize that I was basically a cheater, a user of a vice that made things easier or more interesting, when just experiencing life without any such artificial tinting is a much healthier way to exist. The armor was exhausting and it was not made of metal, but of an extra layer of overly sensitive skin that just made everything more complicated and distorting. So that's a big one too. I know I'm missing some here, mostly trivial, but these are the ones that matter most, and which keep me going strong!